{"id":1017196,"date":"2021-11-15T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017196"},"modified":"2021-11-15T22:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:43:34","slug":"obama-presidential-center-brings-rising-costs-to-low-income-chicago-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-presidential-center-brings-rising-costs-to-low-income-chicago-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Presidential Center Brings Rising Costs to Low-Income Chicago Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-presidential-center-brings-rising-costs-to-low-income-chicago-residents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Obamas-Break-Ground-on-Obama-Center-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As the Obama Presidential Center continues construction near Chicago\u2019s South Shore neighborhood, many low-income residents are asking the city for protection over fears that property taxes, insurance, and interest rates will skyrocket as the neighborhood changes to a more upscale area.<\/p>\n<p>Many residents of the Woodlawn and South Shore neighborhoods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-obama-center-south-shore-20211115-wmhvup7jbrepjhiojgsrjgp5ce-story.html\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fear<\/a> being driven out of their homes due to rising rents and house prices as the area changes once the Obama Center opens, the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The City Council has already enacted an ordinance that they hope will protect legacy residents that the Obama Center will affect. But the Coalition for a Community Benefits Agreement, a group formed to look after the interests of long-standing residents, wants more.<\/p>\n<p>The group says that some residents have been left out of the city\u2019s plan, and they want those homeowners and renters included. Residents are \u201cscared that South Shore one day is going to look like Hyde Park, but none of us are going to be here anymore,\u201d project creator Eva Maria Lewis told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one here is trying to stop the Obama Center,\u201d organizer Dixon Romeo added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But activists are most worried that black residents will be slowly pushed out of the neighborhoods where the first black president is building his eponymous complex.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the demands include launching a sizeable public housing program in the neighborhoods to make the areas less attractive to high-income families; measures to prevent displacement; and caps on fees, taxes, and other costs for residents \u2014 including building owners, renters, and single-family homeowners \u2014 and other measures.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Center \u2014 it isn\u2019t a \u201cpresidential library\u201d like other such installations because Obama won\u2019t house his papers and records there \u2014 has stirred trouble in other areas, as well. Since the City Council allowed Obama to begin building his edifice in Jackson Park, several lawsuits were filed to stop the project. At issue are park rules that once said that no new building developments were allowed on parklands.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Protect Our Parks, a Chicago nonprofit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/05\/15\/chicago-nonprofit-files-lawsuit-block-obama-center-construction\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit in federal court to block construction of the Obama Center, claiming the organizers diverted the center\u2019s purpose away from operating as a presidential library.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lawsuits and Obama\u2019s promise not to materially alter the park until after settling the issues, Obama began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/08\/11\/obama-center-breaks-promise-remove-trees-jackson-park\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ripping out<\/a> hundred-year-old trees in the park the same year the lawsuits were first filed.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits delayed the groundbreaking for the Obama Center until this year. A groundbreaking ceremony was finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/obama-breaks-ground-on-presidential-library-in-chicago\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held<\/a> this September.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even as some lawsuits continue to wind through the courts, a federal judge recently <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2021\/08\/06\/federal-judge-denies-bid-to-block-obama-centers-construction-in-jackson-park\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied<\/a> a request to halt construction of the center and is allowing the plans to go forward.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama Presidential Center continues construction near Chicago\u2019s South Shore neighborhood, many low-income residents are asking the city for protection over fears that property taxes, insurance, and interest rates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}